My experience is at best anecdotal, but my VooDoo 3D AGP card has been supported for a few years; too bad they are out of business now. Tux Racer and Chromium scream across my screen on just have a K7 500Mhz with 768 MB RAM. I don't know if anybody remembers getting nvidia cards to work under RedHat 7.1 or 7.2, but the instructions included "patching" (more like creating a memory hole) in the kernel for the card to work. Comparing old apples to old apples, I prefer my VooDoo 3D. Rather than going out to get the latest and greatest hardware, I tend to look first at what is currently supported under Linux. It may not be the newest, but at least it will work, and usually work well. Code maturity is important when considering hardware drivers. Currently, I am trying to decide between an RME Hammerfall and an M-Audio Delta 1010 audio card. Just as the 3D provides video performance, the RME Hammerfall does the same for audio, off loading the audio processing away from the main cpu. The alsa project also says both cards are supported. That's my $.02US anyway. -=cybersean3000=- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
